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The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare... -
![The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare]()
The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions... -
![The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson]()
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare.Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our understanding of William Shakespeare, his time, and his works... -
![The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson]()
The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool... -
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![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![Final Harvest: Poems by Emily Dickinson]()
Final Harvest: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThough generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations... -
![Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by John Donne, John Hayward]()
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by John Donne, John Hayward
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed... -
![The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare]()
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This Penguin Classics edition of Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint is edited by John Kerrigan... -
![Assassins by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman]()
Assassins by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvoking a fraternity of political assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history, Sondheim and Weidman daringly examine success, failure and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. "Dark, demented humor, as horrifying as it is hilarious... -
![The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams]()
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFirmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies - thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible - The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones... -
![Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux]()
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHenri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux “genius,” and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work “is without equal in the literature of our time... -
![Wild Goose Chase: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Sophie Lynbrook]()
Wild Goose Chase: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Sophie Lynbrook
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMr. Darcy and Elizabeth are off to Gretna Green. A dastardly scheme enacted by Miss Bingley sends them on a wild ride through England’s northern counties in pursuit of Lydia and Mr. Wickham. Accompanied by her relatives and pursued by his, they join a succession of carriages streaming along the busy road to the border. New friends are made along the way, as well as some unexpected choices. Mr... -
![Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak, Борис Пастернак]()
Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak, Борис Пастернак
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind... -
![El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]()
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork... -
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![Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron]()
Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt includes eighteen of his lyrics; Cantos One, Three, and excerpts from Canto Four of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; two verse romances, The Prisoner of Chillon and The Giaour, the latter newly receiving critical attention for its prophetically disjunctive structure; Manfred; The Vision of Judgment; and Don Juan, presented in long self-contained extracts--the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Sixteenth...Categorized as:
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![A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert]()
A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair, looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad... -
![The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin]()
The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed...Categorized as:
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![Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare]()
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Sonnet 18" is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare... -
![Selected Poems by William Wordsworth]()
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling... -
![The Complete Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]()
The Complete Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 29 ratings‘O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!’ One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius... -
![The Misanthrope and Other Plays by Molière, Lewis Seifert]()
The Misanthrope and Other Plays by Molière, Lewis Seifert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imaginary Invalid“The comedy,” Molière once quipped, “is excellent, and they who deride it deserve to be derided... -
![The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd]()
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Words in My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr. Sergeant, the English bookseller. When a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives - the Monsieur - Mr Sergeant insists everything must be just so. It transpires that the Monsieur is René Descartes...Categorized as:
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![The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Sixteenth Century & The Early Seventeenth Century by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt]()
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Sixteenth Century & The Early Seventeenth Century by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFirmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones...Categorized as:
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![The Prodigal Girl by Grace Livingston Hill]()
The Prodigal Girl by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTeenager Betty Thornton is devastated when she learns that her father will be uprooting his family and moving to a remote Vermont farm far away from her social circle of friends. Rather than passively accepting, Betty takes matters into her own hands and makes plans to elope with Dudley Weston, the reckless young boyfriend she left behind... -
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![The Miracle Game by Josef Škvorecký]()
The Miracle Game by Josef Škvorecký
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiřický falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive... -
![The Poems of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope]()
The Poems of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text... -
![Orlando Furioso: Part One by Ludovico Ariosto]()
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Ludovico Ariosto
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors... -
![The Poetry of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca]()
The Poetry of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after." --Harold BloomIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetnessthat came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties... -
![The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson]()
The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restraint and vitality gave to the seventeenth-century lyric its most distinctive quality...Categorized as:
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![Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte]()
Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet show why Milton takes his place beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Vergil. They ring with the unmistakable clarity of genius, with majesty of language, splendor and wealth of detail, and with the deep conviction of a powerful mind... -
![Schemes of Felicity: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Suzan Lauder]()
Schemes of Felicity: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Suzan Lauder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA month to find a mate!Mr. Darcy desires marriage to Elizabeth Bennet, but he ruins any such prospect during his proposal at Hunsford. The resulting general sense of malaise interferes with his usually amicable yet stately demeanour, and his Fitzwilliam relatives resolve that Darcy is lonely-he must be in want of a wife... -
![Happy Days by Samuel Beckett]()
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present... -
![The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni]()
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes... -
![Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett]()
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 20 ratingss/t: All That Fall; Embers; Acts Without Words, I and II; Mimes This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday... -
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![The Sensible Thing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Fitzgerald]()
The Sensible Thing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Fitzgerald
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis 1924 short story borrows from the common plot and themes of Fitzgerald's work. In this story, George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary. When George receives a letter from Jonquil that sounds "nervous" George quits his insurance job and heads down to Tennessee to convince Jonquil of his love for her... -
![Goodbye, Mr. Chips / To You, Mr. Chips by James Hilton]()
Goodbye, Mr. Chips / To You, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDepicts the life of Mr. Chipping, a gentle English schoolmaster known familiarly to the schoolboys at Brookfield as Mr... -
![Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161) by John Lyly]()
Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161) by John Lyly
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a photographic facsimile of John Lyly's comedy Gallathea, printed in 1592, taken from the copy in the British Library, with the songs from Lyly's Sixe Court Comedies, printed in 1632, taken from the copy in the Huntington Library, California... -
![Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser]()
Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTo facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie... -
![D. Quixote de la Mancha - Vol. I by J.R. Cuenot, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]()
D. Quixote de la Mancha - Vol. I by J.R. Cuenot, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDon Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years...Categorized as:
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![Diamond Grill by Fred Wah]()
Diamond Grill by Fred Wah
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe.Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury Steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice, bird’s nest soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding; where racism simmers behind the shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe...Categorized as:
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![The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Saikaku Ihara]()
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Saikaku Ihara
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings[From back.]One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature is her constant undoing, ranges over all of 17th-century Japanese life... -
![Berenice, a tragedy by Jean Racine, John Masefield]()
Berenice, a tragedy by Jean Racine, John Masefield
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBerenice, a... -
![A Kid for Two Farthings (Bloomsbury Group) by Wolf Mankowitz]()
A Kid for Two Farthings (Bloomsbury Group) by Wolf Mankowitz
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix year-old Joe knows a unicorn when he sees one. His downstairs neighbour Mr Kandinsky has told him all about these mythical creatures, and there isn't anything in the world that this wise tailor doesn't know. So when Joe sees a little white goat amidst the singing birds, salted herrings and hokey-pokey ices of a Whitechapel market he has to have him... -
![Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish]()
Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them... -
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![Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney]()
Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSidney's sonnet cycle, consisting of 100 sonnets, followed by 11 Songs, is, after Shakespeare's, the finest sonnet cycle in the English language. Sidney explores all the aspects of what it means to be in love and does so in language that is memorable and striking. All lovers of poetry will enjoy exploring this classic work from the Elizabethan era... -
![The Doctor in Spite of Himself by Molière]()
The Doctor in Spite of Himself by Molière
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLe Médecin malgré lui or The Doctor in spite of himself/The Mock Doctor is a comedy-farce in three acts in prose.Sganarelle, an alcoholic woodcutter, is mistaken for a reputable doctor, even though he has no idea what a doctor should know... -
![Comus (Classic Reprint) by John Milton]()
Comus (Classic Reprint) by John Milton
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExcerpt from Comus Few poems have been more variously designated than Comus, Milton himself describes it simply as "A Mask"; by others it has been criticised and estimated as a lyrical drama, a drama in the epic style, a lyric poem in the form of a play, a phantasy, an allegory, a philosophical poem, a suite of speeches or majestic soliloquies, and even a didactic poem... -
![Amphitryon by Molière]()
Amphitryon by Molière
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterword by Richard Wilbur... -
![Aucassin et nicolette by Alexandre Micha, Anonymous]()
Aucassin et nicolette by Alexandre Micha, Anonymous
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAucassin et Nicolette is a medieval French chantefable, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a "sung story"), similar to a prosimetrum. It is the only known chantefable from what was once a very popular literary tradition, and it is from this work the term chantefable was coined in its concluding "No cantefable prent fin" ("Our chantefable is drawing to a close")... -
![Journey to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac]()
Journey to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat if the moon were another world for which ours served as the moon? An absurd notion, but one which leads our narrator to travel to a paradisiacal world in which he is a monster, a malfunction of nature, and a myth. The dream quickly becomes a nightmare, however, when the ruling ecclesiastical courts condemn him for his heretical opinions and illicit beliefs...
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